Fast Food Nutrition Lessons for Teen Healthy Eating: High School Health Curriculum Health Lessons
Fast Food Nutrition Lesson: 5 engaging lessons on reading food labels, understanding fat, cholesterol, fast food choices, and resource includes a group poster project too!!
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Why purchase this resource:
>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of both worlds.
>> Meets HS/MS National Health Education Standards.
>> Meets HS/MS Technical Subjects Health Common Core Standards.
>> Meets Washington State’s rigorous Health Education Standards.
- This resource is a student favorite!
- They have so much fun with this informative restaurant group activity!
- This is also one of our "BEST-SELLING" individual Health lessons!
- This resource is 5+ days with full PowerPoint directions to walk you through the lessons!
- This is no boring "canned curriculum" or just vocabulary words to look up! These are fun and interactive lessons with a group poster that teaches valuable nutrition information
- Students will learn how to read food labels
- Students can't believe how many calories, or how much fat some of their favorite food items have
- The posters they create are amazing every year. See preview photos to see some real examples.
- Impact your whole school-find a public place in your school halls and post some of the best posters (or all of them if possible) so all your students can see the reality of fast food!
- Do an interactive "Healthy Tennis Shoe" activity!
- Students really like this activity and are inspired to make some healthy changes in the future!
Here is what previous buyers are saying:
- “My students loved this lesson.”
- “Very relevant, since many students frequent fast food restaurants.
- “I have used this assignment for years, love it!”
- “Students enjoyed this activity. The posters caused a lot of discussion around the school also.”
- “WOW - so much contained in this product!”
★ This resource is taken directly from our Full Semester/Year High School Health Curriculum, and our Middle/Junior High School Health Curriculum, which are both #1 Best-Selling Health Curriculums on TeacherPayTeacher!!
This unit includes:
- 144 Slides in 4 PowerPoint Presentations That Walk You Through the Lessons
- 30 Pages of Step-By-Step Teacher Directions
- Daily Learning Target Posters and "Check Off Sheet"
LESSON 1:
-Amazing introduction to healthy eating, U.S. weight issues, food choices, family genetics, false advertising promises for weight loss, and more...
-The CDC's "Obesity in the United States" PowerPoint
-A "Portion Sizes" PowerPoint (shows the difference of how we eat today versus years ago)
-Height - Weight Chart
-B.M.I.
-Calories Information and Formula Worksheet
-Set Point Theory and YoYo Dieting Dangers
-Video
OPTIONAL PRE-LESSON:
-Food Label Reading Lesson
-Worksheet and activity
LESSON 2:
-Understanding Calories
-How It's Almost Impossible How Some Diets Claim to "Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days!"
-Analyzing "Joe's Calories Worksheet"
-Understanding Fat, Trans Fat, and Saturated and Unsaturated Fats
-Figuring How Much Fat is Healthy for Each Student
-Examples of Foods High In Fat
-Analyzing Fast Food Calories and Fat
-Into Groups for "Analyzing Fast Food Project"
-The Fast Food Poster Project: In groups students will use restaurant nutritional information to fill out the"Fast Food" worksheet. I have included detailed directions on how to get the restaurant information (there's an awesome and easy website) and how to do this lesson.
LESSON 3:
-Understanding Cholesterol
-Using an optional Included "Art Rubric" to increase the level of work on posters!
-Continue Working on "Fast Food Posters"
Optional LESSON 4 for Middle Grades:
-Interactive Tennis Shoe Activity! Cut out!
-Learn the food groups and what each group provides
TOTAL: 5 Lessons including optional lessons!
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